Band 5 Staff Nurse - Virtual Wards

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Health and Integrated Care Division in the clinical roll out of Virtual Wards within ESHT.

Virtual Wards will be a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that is enabled by technology. Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring, and treatment they need in their own home. This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital, or supporting early discharge out of hospital”

Our vision at ESHT is the service to be "Clinically led, user centric, integrated model which is digitally enabled".

Our core team will bolster are existing Urgent Community Response services, and will use our integrated workforce which includes Nurses, Paramedics, AHP's, and our Integrated Support Workers.

As well as the Core Team, we will work with our specialist colleagues in Respiratory, Heart Failure and Frailty.

Services will include remote monitoring; virtual prescribing; clinical decision making; board rounds as well as Hospital@Home services ranging from basic care needs, IV management (medication, infusions, diuretics), home O2, nebulising, phlebotomy, point-of-care testing, wound care, AHP assessments/Frailty Assessments and input as required, catheter management and so on.

This is an exciting opportunity for a band 5 staff nurse to work with a new service within virtual wards.

The virtual ward will provide hospital at home to patients in their own environment. You will be working as a team to provide expertise and personalised care to those patients on the virtual ward. You will be using digital technology to monitor and support these patients, supporting the set up of equipment and explanation to the patient, remote monitoring of those patients, and providing care plans to those patients.

Ideally you will have experience looking after patients either in an acute or community setting. You will travel independently to patients homes and will be provided with the equipment and support. You will be able to claim a generous fuel allowance, be provided with lone working devices, laptops, and equipment to undertake patient care.

You will work with colleagues across the integrated care system to develop and maintain high quality, clinically driven pathways so that we are able to provide the best patient experience to our local population.

You will work closely as a team with the Service Manager, Head of Nursing, and existing Urgent Community Response management team, Community Nursing Services, and the Assistant Director of Nursing.

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position, please do not hesitate to contact us.